Senior Full Stack Engineer, iOS and Backend at Raya

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer with iOS and backend expertise to join the Places team, a separate consumer iOS app within Raya. In this role, you will build and enhance member facing experiences across the Places iOS app.

You will work across the entire app rather than a single component: Swift and UIKit on the client side, and TypeScript and Node.js on the server side. You will own features from end to end, spanning UI components through the backend services that deliver the data. This is a senior engineering position with deep technical impact across our mobile application and backend systems.

The ideal candidate has built and operated high scale consumer iOS applications end to end, demonstrating strong ownership from architecture through production execution. You will collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering teams to ship robust features, maintain software health, and drive technical excellence across both client and server codebases.

Responsibilities

• Build and own core member facing features end to end.
• Set architectural patterns and best practices, and solve complex client side lifecycle and state management problems.
• Partner with server engineering on API design, data correctness, and client server state synchronization, and implement backend components of features.
• Work with product, design, and data science to scope, experiment with, and launch member facing features.
• Focus on the details of interaction, motion, and performance.
• Contribute across large, long lived iOS and Node.js codebases, including performance, testing practices, and deliberate management of technical debt.
• Own production health for core flows, including monitoring, crash triage, and release quality.
• Raise the engineering bar through code review, mentorship, and clear written specifications.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional iOS development experience, with strong proficiency in Swift, UIKit, and MVVM.
• Strong experience with RxSwift or similar reactive programming frameworks.
• A track record of shipping consumer mobile apps to large audiences, with strong judgment on architecture, performance, and user experience.
• Strong consumer product sense, a high bar for design quality, and the ability to partner with product, design, and data teams.
• Proficiency in a backend language, with experience shipping and maintaining production services. We use TypeScript and Node.js, but welcome engineers who have built services in Go, Python, Ruby, or another backend language.
• Experience designing APIs that mobile clients depend on and owning the business logic and systems behind them.
• Proven ability to lead projects from concept through launch, balance speed and quality, and own what you ship after it ships.
• You use AI coding tools in your daily work, help the team adopt them, and look for opportunities to improve the engineering harness.

What Sets You Apart

• Backend infrastructure experience: designing and operating what a service runs on, including deployment, scaling, reliability, and observability at production scale.
• Experience with StoreKit 2, subscriptions, and paywall or pricing experiments, including subscription analytics.
• Experience with Mapbox or complex map based interfaces.
• Familiarity with SwiftUI alongside UIKit, and with modularizing a large iOS codebase.
• Experience with Redux style state management patterns.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
• $50 a day food delivery budget
• Equity based employment
• Great culture and learning opportunities
• Unlimited vacation
• 12 weeks paid parental leave
• $1,000 a year to travel somewhere in the world you have never been, reflecting our values of human connection, empathy, and curiosity